Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-20
STREET POLITeNEsS.
An Essay Toward Proving That Mamie
should Make Women as Well Men.

| An Essay Toward Proving That Manner,
should Make Women AS Well Men.
The ladies of this city are rapidly
learning to keep 10 the right on muddy
crossings, and are alss adopting other
simple courtesies which are putting
them to the front as the handsomesi
and best of the sisterhood in America,
but occasionally an obstinate. strong
minded. contrary specimen is encoun-
tered. who will persist in ambling To
the left. or doing some other equally
inconsistent and unnecessary act. A
gentleman who has travelled extensively
in Europe remarked to reporter, while
discussing some of the characteristics
of the gentler sex. that the men of
America are largely to blame for the
disposition of some of the fair creatures
to take this surrender Of every thing as
matter Of course, for they have so
long treated them with such gallantry
that many have been educated into re-
garding as right what is simply a
courtesy. In Paris or Vienna. for in
stance, il street car be crowded with
males. and lady should enter. not one
of them would venture to offer seat,
aud the lady herself would not expect
it. The women there have never been
taught that they had any more rights
than a man, and for that reason, If an
American should extend courtesy he
Is accustomed TO at home, he would be
stared at as IN Anak. and even the lady
herself would be tempted to regard ii
rs impertincnt And then he said that
the ungallantries TO the ladies TO be
met with across the Continent were
sufficient to keep an Americans blood
boiling, and he never wanted to see
similar rudeness extend TO this country,
although the ladies sometimes invited
II by the matter-of-faet way in which
they prc-cmptcd every thing in the line
Of accommodation to which their fancy
inclined.
Ii was Florence Marryat who once
wrote that Americans cxcelled all ma
tons in attention to their women, but
that the American ladies were the
most unmanncrly; but she awarded the
palm Of boorishness to the men of her
own nationality. which is English. In
New York. and even in cultivated Bos-
ton, q cburlish treatment Of ladies in
a public conveyance is beginning to
make itself felt, and in the former city
the SIN snecrin ely speaks Of an incl
dent on a car, Hherc gentleman sur
rendered. his sest as u '.lost art The
average American, however, whether
rich or lowly. is proud Of chance to
be tender and chiyalric to lady, and
he is amply compensated If his courte-
sy be recognized as courtesy, and not
accepted as a right.
II seems like little thing to keep to
the right on muddy crossing. but there
are many ladies walking abreast who
never stop to consider the limited pas
sage, and coolly appropriate it as they
would a seat in "A car. There are men.
too, who do this thing, but rs gener-
al thing they do it at the risk of being
pushed to one SIDE, for they know that
while the average man will take a good
deal of woman he will stand no fool
ishness from one Of his own sex, and
will elbow him into the mud without
the slightest conjunction of conscience
II he neglected to obey the common
law Of keeping to the right. Iadidnap-
Us Nei0s.